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| Fonds/Collection Number: | F0325 |
| Title: | Oliver Edwin Hodges fonds |
| Dates: | 1935-1970 |
| Extent: | 17.0 m of textual records 0.15 m of photographs : b&w ; 11 x 51 cm or smaller 1 audio disc |
| Biographical Sketch/ Administrative History: | Oliver Edwin Hodges (1915-1993), union organizer and politician, was born in Canada. He served with the National Union of Shoe and Leather Workers as an education officer (1943-1947), the United Glass and Ceramic Workers of North America as a president of District 6. He was also a district organizer for the Canadian Congress of Labour as well as a general representative of the organization in the 1950s. A founding director of the Religion-Labour Council of Canada (1959), Hodges was also a member of education committees in the Canadian Labour Congress. He was a Co-operative Commonwealth Federation candidate in London, Ontario municipal elections and served on its Labour Committee (1947-1949). He was unsuccessful as a CCF candidate in provincial elections in the 1940s and as a federal NDP candidate in 1965. After 1965, he became a collective bargaining consultant. He served as a member of the Ontario Labour Relations Board and was president of Workers' Equity Limited. |
| Scope and Content: |
The fonds consists of correspondence, minutes, newspapers and newspaper clippings, photographs, publications and reports, relating to Oliver Edwin Hodges' union activities in Canada, as well as to the Co-operative Commonwealth Federation. |
| Restrictions on Access and Use: | No restrictions on access. |
| Finding Aid: | File list available. |
| URL of Finding Aid: | http://archivesfa.library.yorku.ca/fonds/ON00370-f0000325.pdf |
| Accruals: | The fonds comprises the following accession: 1972-003. Further accruals are expected. |
| Provenance Access Points: | Hodges, Oliver Edwin, 1915-1993 |
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Date of creation: 2002/04/04 Date of last revision: 2003/04/29 |
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